Tag Archives: international development

The two second advantage and memories of the future

Stuart Henderson’s mention of The Two Second Advantage (see the LinkedIn discussion referred to in the post from earlier this week) reminds me of the work of business strategist Arie De Geus, who discusses how learning organizations use scenario planning … Continue reading

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Where and Why Western lenses miss the mark in Africa: The case of HIV/AIDS prevention evaluations

“Given the norms that govern most patriarchal societies in Africa, should the Western epistemology, ethics and concepts be the main default lens for evaluation” “Despite their blindness to social cultural context, are these evaluations valid even though they are said … Continue reading

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Three powerful and authentic questions about evaluation and cultural context

In reading the comments in response to my earlier post, The Importance of Values for Substantiating Evaluative Conclusions , three questions strike me as powerful and authentic in addressing evaluation theory and practice within the context of culture What ‘really’ … Continue reading

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The risks of focusing on the easy-to-measure

Some more developments in UK development funding, an issue we looked at in a post a few weeks ago. Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute for Development Studies has  an interesting article in the Guardian in response to David Cameron’s … Continue reading

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